This week has been all about the glory that is Julianne Ross. For those of you who missed out on last week’s introduction, allow me to re-present Julianne, who is our new Deputy Culture Editor Julianne is already contributing in awesome ways to the section, with a fabulous interview with Portugal. The Man that we ran this morning. Our editrix romance is blossoming, and the Culture section will only improve with Julianne on board. If you still haven’t said ‘hey,’ say ‘hey.’

Shout Outs of the Week: Shout out to PolicyMic, just in general. Check out the awesome article about us in Business Insider.

What Have You Been Up To? In the weekly newsletter I’ll be sharing our illustrious pundits fantastic writing achievements as well as highlighting news about what we’re all doing offline. If you have anything you’d like me to include about yourself or a fellow PolicyMic-er, please send it my way!

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